Re: [PATCH] fs: btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove two unnecessary checks before calling kfree()

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Wed Feb 11 2015 - 04:34:25 EST




On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Bas Peters wrote:

> kfree checks whether the pointer it is passed is NULL. The two foregoing
> checks are therefore unnecessary.
>
> This issue was detected using Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bas Peters <baspeters93@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
> index d6c03f7..7d2d817 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
> @@ -1976,8 +1976,7 @@ new_bitmap:
>
> out:
> if (info) {
> - if (info->bitmap)
> - kfree(info->bitmap);
> + kfree(info->bitmap);
> kmem_cache_free(btrfs_free_space_cachep, info);
> }
>
> @@ -3427,8 +3426,7 @@ again:
>
> if (info)
> kmem_cache_free(btrfs_free_space_cachep, info);
> - if (map)
> - kfree(map);
> + kfree(map);

A certain lack of parallelism arises in the latter case.

julia

> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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